Showing What Needs To Be Shown

Vanessa Carlton wrote a humdinger of a gnostic song in "Twilight"(NOT the movie!). This melody has always touched a nerve with me. Read, listen, and see what you think. Complete catharsis. Rebirth and eye-opening bittersweet agony. We have to recognize a few hardcore facts about ourselves and learn to forgive ourselves if we want to move on and grow within the All.

"And it was so easy not to behold what I could hold..." Yes, it is definitely easier to continue to live with the wool over your eyes, so nicely stitched and arranged by the demiurge. And that is the point isn't it? We have to do the difficult thing and rip the wool off like it's a bandaid that we know is going to sting like a bitch. But we have to do it if we want answers. 

"I didn't know that I could be so blind to all that is so real
But as illusion dies I see there is so much to be revealed
But you taught me I could change 
Whatever came within these shallow days."

Gnosis, once glimpsed and accepted, then becomes our soul's sustenance. What a beautiful feast it is!

[Verse 1]
I was stained, with a role, in a day not my own
But as you walked into my life you showed what needed to be shown
And I always knew, what was right I just didn't know that I might
Peel away and choose to see with such a different sight

[Chorus]
And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I've seen, cause I've seen, twilight

[Verse 2]
Never cared never wanted
Never sought to see what flaunted
So on purpose so in my face 
Couldn't see beyond my own place
And it was so easy not to behold what I could hold
But you taught me I could change 
Whatever came within these shallow days

[Chorus]
And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I've seen, cause I've seen

[Bridge]
As the sun shines through it pushes away and pushes ahead
It fills the warmth of blue and leaves a chill instead and
I didn't know that I could be so blind to all that is so real
But as illusion dies I see there is so much to be revealed

[Chorus]
And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I've seen, cause I've seen, twilight

[Verse 3]
I was stained, by a role, in a day not my own
But as you walked into my life you showed what needed to be shown
And I always knew, what was right
I just didn't know that I might
Peel away and choose to see with such a different sight

[Chorus]
And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I've seen, cause I've seen, twilight...